Sentence examples for lick into from inspiring English sources

But this isn't just a flabby, badly run business which Hands will easily be able to lick into shape.

The most hilarious pieces in this volume concern his bungling attempts to lick into shape a body that he compares to a burst horsehair sofa cushion or a condom hastily stuffed with an old sock.

And Mr. Summers, in a glimpse of his Police days, slipped a backbeat and a Chuck Berry lick into one of his own tunes, "The Last Dance of Mr. X".

Now he spends much of his time at a corner table in the restaurant, surrounded by the papers on which he has scribbled notes for a book he intends to lick into shape.

Though the army has always prided itself on being able to lick into shape the raw material turning up at recruiting offices, the standard of school leavers is seemingly so low that even it has balked at the educational mountain it needs to climb.

Cigarette lifted, licked into shape.

It capably placed country and blues licks into each tune but didn't blast through them.

As the flames licked into the room, they managed to climbed on to the roof of the bay window, him naked and her in just a T-shirt.

It has resisted efforts to ease the conditions attached to the bail-outs of Greece and Ireland, and is insisting that Portugal, which started negotiations on a bail-out this week, also gets licked into shape.

He has grand dreams of composing requiems on the death of the American dream, but the baking contests must still be reported, and his fancy prose is licked into shape by a hard-drinking, old-school editor.

Papa Roach has done well by leaning toward the melodic side, hoisting big singalong choruses above its double-time power chords; it also slips pert, staccato Police guitar licks into the songs.